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[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] JoeyLe:
Yeah, also this ALL is based on a Best Buy manager who pulled a conclusion too soon. Another employee for Best Buy has explained it isn't discontinued but only the number in their system has changed.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] achuong08:
My grey TFP was shipped this morning, i can no longer click on the picture to view item details, and it is no longer in their online catalog, but I think they still make them
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Blairware:
Oh yes you are!

He was referring to same SKU inline model changes. Happens

all the time in manufactured goods.

Why should he need to produce a "source" for a general observation (that happens to be spot on) You want a "source"? As an example I bought a Ryobi Backpack Leaf Blower that the advert, and even the stocking tag said had electric start. But Ryobi removed the battery and starter, same model number, same sku number at Home Depot. Model # RY09800 Store SKU # 560647

The store manager explained: It's an inline, SAME MODEL NUMBER SAME SKU model change.

http://www.homedepot.com/buy/outdoo...gas-backpack-180-mph-350-cfm-blower-5735.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1yeokevjOM

If you are not "Prime obsessed, how come you are all over these forums commenting in mutiple threads when, as you admit you don't even have a stinking PRE-order, nevermind a prime. Go away. Troll.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] King John:
Yeah, we know, it's been resolved already. Got a quote from a Best Buy employee. But I can't change the gosh-fer-darned title D:<
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Swiftks:
double click on the title in the thread list to change.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] JoeyLe:
Stfu. The forum doesn't require to have Prime to post in these forums, either way it is released tomorrow in my country, and pre-orders aren't accepted. Btw, I don't care about your leaf blower.

BTW: Look at your thanks number+posts and mine. Go ask yourself who is the troll here.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Diamondback:
You need to go to the advanced edit mode to change the title.

And guys stop bashing each other. That's not cool at all.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] King John:
Thank you kind sir, and the other kind sir, who pointed out how to change thread title
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Diamondback:
A click on the "Thanks button" is normalls way more apreciated by both users and mods :)

Keeps threads clean and simple :)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] the_game_master:
this thread still going on.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] EmptyArea:
Best bedtime read ever.

Here's the rumor I just invented.

They took the back off and it fixed the GPS issue. There was a delay in production while they took all the backs off. As that fixed the GPS they then put all the back back on. Randomly the GPS stopped working. So now they are back at the back drawing board trying to workout what to do with the back to get the GPS back on with the back back on.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] BarryH_GEG:
Here's something interesting...

A friend sent me the link to Google's Android Compatibility Definition Document (CDD).

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...RQ5wkThbzbpEH4_yQ&sig2=XAcBfPWwZlfihwzbEuvFrg

For GPS it says...

7.3.3. GPS

Device implementations SHOULD include a GPS receiver. If a device implementation does include a GPS receiver, it SHOULD include some form of "assisted GPS" technique to minimize GPS lock-on time.

I didn't capitalize "should," it's that way becasue it is a defined term.

Here's the definition...

SHOULD

This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course.

Section 7.3 itself is dedicated to Sensors and talks about handling reporting in the OS when they're absent.

7.3 Sensors

- MUST accurately report the presence or absence of sensors per the android.content.pm.PackageManager class

- MUST return an accurate list of supported sensors via the SensorManager.getSensorList() and similar methods

- MUST behave reasonably for all other sensor APIs (for example, by returning true or false as appropriate when applications attempt to register listeners, not calling sensor listeners when the corresponding sensors are not present; etc.)

Again, "must" is a defined term.

So it would seem Asus could still meet Google's requirements if they pull the GPS sensor as long as they make the necessary s/w changes. Which raises an interesting question about the need for different ROMs.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jfortier777:
ASUS just announced that GPS is going to be removed completely on all new primes off the factory line.

In place of the old and ineffective gps unit you will now receive a midget with an excellent sense of direction.

So as not to to anger early adopters; ASUS is also offering free midgets for any tablets initially shipped with GPS. However, owners with functioning GPS will only receive half of a midget in order to supplement the existing hardware.

This is legit. I heard it from the district manager of Hollywood Video.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] adiliyo:
there's no such thing as a hollywood video. i call BS. :p
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Sokonomi:
Cool, our very own R2D2! Thanks Asus!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] movielover76:
Doubtful

After many many hours tinkering with the captivate GPS config file, plus the fact that asus decided to remove gps from the units I think this is extremely unlikely.

If the makers of the device couldn't fix the gps with with a simple software update to the gps.conf, I don't think xda will be able to, at least not reliably enough to use as a navigation device
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ejbmvp:
anyone noticing much worse battery life since on el26 from el13?

is it even possible a modem can cause decreased/increased battery life?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
A modem certainly can affect battery life.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] geomatiq:
it deff. decreases my battery.. i hate it.. eats my batter really quick..so quick. ive been trying it for the past week ...ive installed set cpu and it doesnt help... just thinking about it drains my battery!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ejbmvp:
ok thanks for that info. im beginning to believe this el26 hates my phone then. ive tried various roms and kernals and still getting 1/2 the battery life i was prior to el26
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gibbsrob:
EL26 is a Vampire!

I switched back to EL13.

My battery life on 26 was like watching a second hand on a clock tick away my juice.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ejbmvp:
thanks for all the inputs. knowing others experienced this helps me from driving myself crazy trying to figure out whats wrong and a fix. i'll be switching back to 13 myself and hopefully i get back my battery life
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Brolloks:
I am on Calk's EL13 ROM (2.5.1) and only flashed the EL26 modem recently and my battery is still fantastic, so it certainly is not the modem draining my battery...battery lasts well over 2 days with light to moderate use
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Jess813:
Agreed! I am using Sensation Rom and battery is awesome!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
Modem performance depends on your location, so just because el26 doesn't drain your battery, doesn't mean it isn't draining the op's battery.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ejbmvp:
yea after q&a's i notice others are getting worse battery like me and others says its still good. so the statement about 'modem performance depends on location' makes sense.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ejbmvp:
instead of reverting back to EL13 because of the horribly battery life i was getting from EL26 i upgraded to EL29 since it became available. I can report my battery life is much better than EL26 and hopefully back to what i was getting on EL13.

EL13 = 30-40hrs battery life

EL26 = 15-19hrs battery life

EL29 = im currently on my first cycle and still have 57% at 17hrs on battery

so for others who had problems with battery since el26 i recommend giving el29 a whirl
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bluefire808:
EL26 has best battery life i have had on this phone only beaten how ever by 100% stock but that might have been because my battery was brandnew so idk for sure
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] limeaid:
Are you all upgrading the modem only or kernel + modem? I've been running the kernel + modem combo for all 3. Initial impressions for me are that EL29 has the worst battery life out of the 3. Here are my results:

EL13 and EL26 ~20 hours of battery life w/ 3 hour of screen time

EL29 ~only 16 hours on 2 hours of screen time
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ejbmvp:
yea i've tried so many combos of mixing and matching. i'm beginning to beleive every phone reacts different. no matter what i did el26 killed my battery. so from all this i've learned you just got to test test test and find out what works best for you
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Dalmus:
Funny... I think I've agreed with you on other posts, buy I had better battery life on stock EG30 modem on ROM a well.

EL29 is getting better, though. I went from 7:00am to 4:00am with light to moderate usage, and was still over 30%.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] souleater11:
For those users who tried flashing ICS Passion v10 and Miui 4.0 ICS v3 Ecstasy, i would like to know both of these rom's average free ram.

Thanks
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] honoluluacx:
On average, I get 50-75 MB of RAM. On froyo/gb ROM's, that might not be enough but on ICS Passion v10, 55 MB is enough to play CK Zombies w/o lag (this game has horrible lag on my dad's stock G2x):)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helikido:
50mb? thats terrible!!! Facebook app itself uses that much! Angry Biirds capable ram only..... damn
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LDKnight:
you can play shadowgun without any texture mods needed running smooth on ics.... love it!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bakron1:
I have a rooted GSM Galaxy Nexus that I want to return to stock ROM and Stock recovery image.

I was wondering if I can do this using Odlin and flashing the Google (yakju-icl53f-factory-89fccaac.tgz) file I downloaded from the Google site? This is suppose to be the 4.0.3 image file for the GSM version and should have the ROM and Recovery images?

I have flashed stock recovery files using Odlin on my Galaxy S2 in the past and it worked like a charm. Just looking for the simplest way to go back to stock.

If the Odlin method will work, do I boot up using the power+volume down key to get into download mode and just select the tar file using the PDA key and flash it? Do I just flash over my existing ROM without wiping?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] joshnichols189:
I haven't used Odin since my fascinate days but you can use fastboot if you'd like, I find it to be easier than Odin.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bakron1:
I may sound like a noob but which files do I use with fastboot? I would like to get a link to the proper files and procedure to flash my GSM Galaxy Nexus back to the stock ROM and Recovery image for 4.0.3.
[Motorola Droid 3] Dri94:
The second i try to make a call the sound on my phone stops. It was working last night. Not even speaker works. But it will work when not in calls. The volume is all the way up
[Motorola Droid 3] mattdavis523:
My wife's did that too, ended up having to send it back for a replacement.
[Motorola Droid 3] sarreq:
this may be a dumb guess, but, make sure you don't have an active Bluetooth headset/speakerphone connection. your in-call audio may be getting redirected to the headset wipeout you realizing it
[Motorola Droid 3] Dri94:
i found it happens alot with the galaxy series. Looked it up and just like theirs it was fixed with a batpull =] thanks for the help and concern guys
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] perquisitor_omnia:
Is there a way to flash an insecure boot image from CWM recovery?

I rooted my transformer with nachoroot, and installed CWM with the one-click recovery installer. None of these methods unlocked the boot loader, obviously, so I can't use adb remount and friends.

I have a B70 tf101, with the .21 firmware if that helps.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee one:
I think you need to flash an insecure boot.img.

There are a few few threads kicking around in the dev section that explain this. rebound821 posted an excellent thread. I think this is exactly what moshi and brk's root tools do via nvflash.

In a nutshell:

1) extract your boot.img from your TF

2) unpack the boot.img to the kernel and ramdisk

3) unpack the ramdisk

4) edit default.prop to set ro.secure=0

5) re-assemble in reverse order

6) zip and flash
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] perquisitor_omnia:
thanks for the reply, but I was asking if after I've done that I could flash the boot img with CWM? I've heard that nvflash doesn't work on B70 transformers.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee one:
Yup, in step 6, you would zip it up and flash it via cwm.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee one:
pm sent!!!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gls9:
If you have root you can do adb remount.

Start a shell in adb and use su to get root. Now you can remount.

I assume this is about remount /system
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] perquisitor_omnia:
Yeah, but even if I remount /system using adb shell I can still can't do "adb push" to /system so I assume I need to set ro.secure=0 in the bootloader for this to work.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gls9:
I dont know because I don't use adb much.

But why not do this from terminal emulator and just copy the file from sdcard ?

(or with adb shell)

Something like this:

su

mount -o remount,rw /system

cat [source] > [destination]
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] perquisitor_omnia:
Thats what I am doing at the moment, but it is annoying to have to stage all files to /data/local or /sdcard before copying files to /system from the tablet, when it is much easier to do

$ adb push <file> /system/

from the host computer. Anyway, if I make a insecure bootloader for my tablet that can be flashed from the recovery, I'll post it here as it might be useful to other people in my position.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee one:
I've got an insecure boot.img from the US 8.6.5.21 firmware if anyone is interested. It's just the boot in a zip file.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sidneyk:
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I thought that any image you flashed with CWM recovery was using an insecure boot.img, unless flashing back stock recovery. Anyway, for adb push or adb pull for that matter to work you have to install Asus sync software and USB drivers under Windows and if in Linux, you can search xda for the thread that explains how to get adb working. Once you've got that and root you can adb push and adb pull all day long til you run out of space.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] perquisitor_omnia:
I have adb working properly (I use it with my G2 all the time), and I use linux.

But for some reason, with my Asus Transformer, when I do

$ adb remount

I get a 'permission denied' error.

Even if I remount /system rw from the shell, I still get 'permission denied' when trying to use 'adb push' to any directory besides /data/local or /sdcard on the tablet. Is this a bug with the recovery I flashed? or is this because the bootloader hasn't had ro.secure=0 set?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee one:
Are you trying this in recovery or under the normal system? Try it under both.

sent from my transformer
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] perquisitor_omnia:
I'm trying under the normal system, I will try under recovery when I get access to my desktop.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee one:
OK, how about some testing:

from your PC:

adb version

adb shell grep secure /default.prop (or adb shell getprop ro.secure)

This will check your adb version and also see if your ro.secure flag is set.

I tested 'adb remount' and it worked as intended. I'm on adb version 1.0.29 with ro.secure=0.

Also, the recovery ramdisk has it's own default.prop and ro.secure flag, so these can actually be set independantly, but I think you would notice it immediately if recovery wasn't insecure.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] perquisitor_omnia:
$ adb version
Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.29
$ adb -s shell getprop ro.secure
1

so that would be the problem. can I set the ro.secure property in build.prop?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dragon_76:
I am familiar with errors kind of like this from Mac OS, dunno if it applies here but you might try repairing permissions from CWM. I have fund that quite a lot of ROMs do not have correct permissions set.

Cheers!

-M

Xda member since 2007
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee one:
Yeah, that would cause the issues. Not sure how to fix it, but some ideas:

1) flash an insecure boot.img via cwm

2) use the staging partition to flash a boot.img/blob

3) ???
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] perquisitor_omnia:
I finally used the SBK detect tool, my B70 has a nvflashable firmware, so I will pull the boot loader with nvflash and make it insecure that way.
[HTC Sensation] aamir123:
I notice that when you first flash a ROM its fast and smooth but after a few Weeks its starts allowing down. How do you fix this?
[HTC Sensation] Jikstah:
Its the other way around for me... :S
[HTC Sensation] HorstDCC:
balance

It's difficult to answer this in general.

Also I don't pretend to be knowledgeable about the full scope of cases.

Often this has to do with a caching strategy and memory resource management strategy and as such you will observe this phenomenon on many platforms with any OS. Optimal caching is about resource management for short term satisfaction (and spectacular speeds while it lasts) or long term equilibrium.

Android makes it easy to cook your own ROM. the task is still about acquiring a huge amount of knowledge but it is not a difficult job, just a big one.

NB: when you pick a good ROM you'll observe that they do not slow down with time :-).
[HTC Sensation] strumf666:
With the stock rom I haven't had the slowing down experience (and I just flashed arhd so I can't comment on that), except with messaging app which is understandable since I started with very little messages and now I have almost 3k.

offtopic :This slowwing down over time reminds me of M$ operating systems :P but they are getting better at it.
[HTC Sensation] jonahtriangle:
I get the same but I thin it has to do with all the crap I install on my phone and then all that collects more crap to make my phone slower
[HTC Sensation] mikef:
If you don't want it to slow down, don't install any applications beyond what comes with the ROM. Simple. :D
[HTC Sensation] stroobach:
Just wipe cache and dalvik every week,

And deleting some big apps will help too.

And reboot your phone in the morning. That will delete temp files

sent from my Nokia 3310
[HTC Sensation] aamir123:
thanks I'll try that! I figured it had something to do with cache.
[HTC Sensation] crberus81:
Just a thought but i got sdmaid and cachecleaner off the market. Cachecleaner got rid of a lot of useless stuff but I've seen a huge improvement in speed with sdmaid pro. Worth a shot
[HTC Sensation] RussianBear:
this are probably the biggest reasons.
[HTC Sensation] billobob:
its just a general android problem. the more applications you install the slower your phone will be
[HTC Sensation] RussianBear:
lol windows isn't immune either :)
[HTC Sensation] aspot72:
Switch of your phone at least every 5 days... No good if phone runs non-stop.
[HTC Titan] frflorio01:
Hey Everyone,

I recently received an unlocked international HTC Titan x310e...I was looking through features and noticed I do not have Bing Voice guided turn by turn navigation at all. Not even the settings to enable it appear, even though it's running Mango 7.5. Is this because I bought an international verson?

Thank you
[HTC Titan] dante501:
Yes there is navigation. Just open up maps put a destinationin and navigate. Is that easy. Not that it is better then some other free GPs navigationloke google or so but it gets the job done.
[HTC Titan] frontieruk:
Erm no there is no turn by turn navigation built in, you have to manually move it on, in fact the first time you use it you get told to only interact with it while the car is stationary.
[LG Revolution] gumnaam.sur:
So, I activated my phone and then rooted the phone fine, using the all-in-one package for root.

After that I flashed GingerVolt + BlitzKrieg . I think it was wrong to install BlitzKrieg Kernel without at least booting once with GingerVolt stock kernel.

So when the thing booted up, it failed to detect the SIM card, and won't activate again. (the SIM was already activated before rooting). But now the activation process said, 'NO SIM found' .

Anyway, after that , I was unable to boot in to recovery, the phone would hang when selecting 'revocery' from the power button option. and Power Button + Vol Down also didn't work.

So with no way to go back in to recovery, I did a 'factory reset' from the settings menu.

After that the phone boots in CWM recovery, but that's all it does. It only boots in recovery. I have tried to reflash GinngerVolt or to restore to the backup (Stock + root) but to no avail.

Now the phone is stuck booting in to recovey. "adb devices" shows

"IMEI-NO recovery". But no matter what, I can't get it to boot normal.

Any clues how I can get out of this mess ?
[LG Revolution] gumnaam.sur:
Replying to self.

Looks like the culprit is using 'factory reset' method. Found another thread, and a solution on another forum (Can't post links yet :( )

Gonna try the LGNPST method.

For any newbies looking in to this, the lesson is

1) Boot atleast once in GingerVolt before overwriting stock kernel.

2) DON'T USE 'FACTORY RESET' option, you phone will then only boot in CWM.
[LG Revolution] KaneOfMars:
If that doesn't work, there is another thread somewhere that has an "exit recovery zip" that you can flash. That may work.

From My Bryce Device

Edit: here's the thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1161537
[LG Revolution] gumnaam.sur:
Thanks KaneOfMars, but I was able to get back to stock, using LGNPST, although I suspect your link would have worked just as well.

In fact using LGNPST was an adventure in it self, every time I clicked the Upgrade button, the LGNPST.exe would crash (Windows 7 64bit). So tried the China Telcom version LGNPST_CT.exe, and that one said 'c:\windows\system32\drivers\wnsdrvr.sys NOT FOUND'.

Then found another LGNPST_CT.exe standalone inside the LGNSTP.zip file which contained the LGNPST installations.

Put this LGNPST_CT.exe inside the C:\LG Electronics\LGNPST folder, and this one had another option beisdes, "Upgrade" called "Binary Download".

And that is a misnomer, coz it is infact "Binary Upload" to the phone, and this option is the one I used to upload the 'V*7.tot' file (the stock 2.3.4 image), back on LG Revo.

Hope someone can benefit from some of this, I spent a good part of yesterday figuring all this out.
[LG Revolution] spc_hicks09:
Just for reference, you can do a factory reset but ONLY through recovery. Doing a factory reset through the phone menu is what will get you stuck in recovery.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kenjibatusai:
Hi, I turned off my mini pro in order to charge it and when I switched it on the phrase "Safe Mode" appeared in the lower left corner; and the applications that I have downloaded weren't available as well as the widgets. I restarted twice and the apks didn't "return" until I removed the battery. What could have happened?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] edwarddd:
That is normal if your phone have malware reboot on safe mod in the logo of Sony Ericsson pres back and this Star in safe mod and you can use the xperia , is the same of windows